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MrDunham

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About MrDunham

Founder of HeyLois, the superconnector co-pilot that finds deals/biz dev and builds your social capital

Sometimes co-invest with some great VCs (sometimes): melzi.vc

Previously: - founded Prebacked - a startup accelerator for contracts (prebacked.com) - First EIR at Sungularity University, helped launch their first accelerator — Dressed Sir Richard Branson as a pickle

Recent public activity

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    It landed back where it started. Seems very appropos.

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    Comment #48461725

    The iPhone camera bump is the "jumped the shark" moment for me when Apple went from unwilling to accept that level of quality to "I'm not sure... they might". Speculative to be sur…

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    Comment #48458669

    Agree and disagree on the "planning a trip" use case... as I'm sitting on a river cruise on an AI co-planned vacation (we found the cruise, AI set the daily itinerary). Now the big…

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    Comment #47875888

    Or loop once/twice... it's a fun effect, but when endless I agree that it's distracting

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    Comment #46892679

    I mentioned in another comment how hard it is for our brains to really comprehend the orders of magnitude difference between all animal cases (~680) and the former number of human …

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    Comment #46887804

    Those are bonkers (low) numbers compared to the 3.5M (human?) cases if I'm to believe the GPs comment. It's also crazy how much Mother Theresa's quote rings true, even in reverse (…

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    Comment #46637829

    My technical cofounder reminds me of this story on a weekly basis.

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    Comment #46635412

    I love Anthropic's models but their realtime voice is absolutely terrible. Every time I use it there is at least once that I curse at it for interrupting me. My main use case for O…

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    Comment #46402435

    Website link on Github points to https://deepmyst.com/ But actually hosted on https://www.deepmyst.com/ with no forwarding from the Apex domain to www so it looks like the website …

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    Comment #45529704

    > "LLMs are terrible at asking questions. They just make a bunch of assumptions and brute-force something based on those guesses." Strongly disagree that they're terrible at asking…

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    Comment #45059976

    There was a great comedic bit on this: "Thank you for flying Delta? I'd fly a kite if it was $11 cheaper" I couldn't find the comedian, but the truth in it hits. Side note: if I re…

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    Comment #44996316

    This is the correct answer. I like to go one step further than the root comment: Nearly all of my "agents" are required to ask at least three clarifying questions before they're al…

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    Comment #44674292

    Can't speak to if it's common, but it was how I was taught and drove in California... so there was rarely any winter conditions to speak of. I preferred downshifting VS braking, pe…

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    Comment #43431446

    I was lucky enough to help Singularity University launch their startup accelerator back in 2015 and have Be My Eyes as a portfolio company. I say lucky because they were such good …

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    Comment #42635361

    Good point! I've seen this search link setup before and it was... somewhat palatable. Still more bad than good but at least better UX.

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    Comment #42628259

    Adding to the article: I seriously HATE magic links. My email inbox is barely better a social network's time suck. Lots of urgent, little important, wrecks any flow I had. Forcing …

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    Comment #41809006

    10 years ago a post from @Bluehat for something we were working on* made #1 and generated about 7k clicks in 2 days. Would suspect that number is much, much higher now. * The Hacke…

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    Comment #41609853

    Friendly correction for others because your auto correct failed you... "predestination", pretty sure parent meant "pre-detonation" A.k.a. Autoignition aka "it goes boom before you …

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    Comment #38939185

    I 100% saw it as MM/DD and was wondering why it took them three months to write up the vulnerability and a month to patch it. Thanks for the clarification

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    Comment #37457645

    My girlfriend, now wife of seven years, put together a Pinterest board of ring styles that she liked. It worked fantastically well… I still got to surprise her with the actual fina…

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    Comment #37367339

    GP's comment is flagged so I can't read it and comment directly. But there's just a... chill vibe that Jimmy managed to capture. His voice wasn't phenomenal. His lyrics were great.…

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    Comment #37367321

    Read every line in Jimmy's voice to the music. Brilliant. Just brilliant. Posted while drinking a (third) margarita in honor of Jimmy Buffett.

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    https://web.archive.org/web/20230902090426/https://www.nytim... In case you get paywalled